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Unleash your inner Buffy on office vampires About a year ago, I introduced you to "emotional vampires," a term created by a West Coast clinical psychologist to describe all the nasty, terrible, irritating people who drain our will to live.
June 15, 2013 - Tampa Bay Times

I Can't Stop Reading This Review of Tao Lin's New Novel We can and will stipulate first of all that Tao Lin is an overbearing self-publicist with a literary career attached, and that he is given to extremely irritating poses . This, however, tells us nothing about whether or not Tao Lin, as a novelist, has any artistic merit; there have been, historically, plenty of serious and important writers among the ranks of overbearing self-publicists, and ...
June 13, 2013 - Gawker

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President Bush in Reuters And that leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org, or more afraid of irritating them, then they are of irritating the United States military,Bush added. "That was a...

Derek Jeter in Yankees.com One thing that really upsets me a lot is when you hear everybody say it was the 'Steroid Era' and everybody was doing it. Well, that's not true,Jeter said on Wednesday. "Everybody wasn't doing it. That's the thing that gets irritating. I...

Mario Theissen in AFP BMW Motorsport boss Mario Theissen said: "It is very simple. There are still some irritating efforts, which have surprised us. We still don't have an agreement, although I would say we are making progress, slowly but steadily. We cannot sit back and...